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Medea Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What function does the chorus's ode serve after the fight between Medea and Creon?
(a) It gives time for a scene change.
(b) It offers more exposition to explain what is happening.
(c) It illuminates the subtext behind the relationship between the two.
(d) It gives the audience a breather from the intensity of the scene.

2. What characters interrupt the Nurse's monologue?
(a) Aegeus and Creon.
(b) Creon and his daughter.
(c) The Tutor and children.
(d) Jason and his lover.

3. What theme, central to the play, does the chorus frequently reiterate?
(a) That marriages are doomed to fail.
(b) That men always betray women.
(c) That children are weapons against a mother.
(d) That women cannot be trusted.

4. Why does the Nurse send the children inside after hearing the Tutor's news?
(a) It is time for their baths before supper.
(b) She is afraid Medea may take her anger out on them.
(c) She wants some time alone with the Tutor.
(d) She doesn't want them hearing more gossip about their parents.

5. What is the Nurse's reaction when she learns what Jason thinks about the plan involving Medea?
(a) She is upset for Medea.
(b) She is enraged.
(c) She is surprised.
(d) She doesn't really care.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the first section of the play?

2. What country is the myth of Medea from?

3. What has Jason said is his intent with regard to his children?

4. What does Jason say he has done on Medea's behalf?

5. After the chorus first arrives, what prayer does Medea send to the gods?

Short Essay Questions

1. What function does the chorus of Corinthian women serve?

2. What makes Medea's anger and despair seem so untoward to the Chorus?

3. Why does the author make sure to establish the fact that women are treated poorly by men?

4. Why would Medea believe that Jason was embarrassed by her?

5. Why do you think Euripides introduces the Delphi oracle into the story?

6. Do you think Medea gains or loses sympathy during her scene with the messenger? Why?

7. Does the Nurse find Medea sympathetic? Why or why not?

8. Why is it significant that Medea is overcome with tears when she puts the children's hands into Jason's?

9. Medea comments that the only thing stronger than her sorrow is her fury. Is the author making a point here about women in general, or is this merely the character affirming the decision she has made?

10. Is Creon's naming of Medea as a "clever witch" supposed to be taken literally or figuratively?

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